Qatar Petroleum

Qatar has sets its sights on the bulging middle distillates market. But can it match the muscle of export giants China & India?

Qatar Petroleum chief says Islamic finance will be at forefront of recovery.

New train capable of producing 7.8m tonnes of LNG (liquified natural gas) annually.

Infrastructure 70% complete, 25 to 50% of construction contracts awarded by end-2009.

Plant will provide 30% of Qatar's electricity needs and 20% of water needs by 2011.

Shell to build offshore terminal to pipe the liquefied natural gas to Dubai.

Some projects are postponed but energy giant says it is not planning to downsize.

Joint venture between Qatar Petroleum and SKorea's Honam victim of credit crunch.

Qatar Petroleum has found financers for its US $3.32 billion (QAR12 billion) power and water plant in the industrial port of Ras Laffan, according to Qatar's state news agency QNA.

World's top LNG exporter starts up delayed facility for British market.

ConocoPhillips deal to send Qatar's gas to US markets marked a paradigm shift for marketing the region's LNG.

Lack of openness about revenues leaving door open to corruption and poverty, study finds.

Estimated project costs up to 2011 soar 22% to $345bn, driven by material and labour.

Coffee supplier Bon Café Middle East signed a distribution agreement with Qatar Petroleum on day two of Gulfood 2008.

The Kyoto Protocol has created a market for carbon trading. Are the Gulf states ready to trade pollution?

Qatar appeal court upholds life sentence for US engineer caught selling industrial secrets.

Qatar has emerged as one of the world's leading gas producers with a rapidly growing liquified natural gas supply sector.

State-owned energy firm looking to sell shares in three three service companies, its head of finance says.

Consortium of General Electric and South Korea's Doosan awarded construction contract for 1,250MW plant.

Part of the investment will see state-run Qatar Petroleum set up $7bn oil refinery in Panama.

Qatari firm will build and run $2bn Tunisian refinery for at least 30 years.

ABB recieves $26m order to be main vendor for two oil platforms.

With a rapidly expanding commercial and residential construction sector, Qatar is facing up to material challenges and labour issues. Christopher Sell reports on how the local market is on a steep learning curve to realise its future ambitions.

State-owned Qatar Petroleum has been selected by the Tunisian government to build the plant.

An industry generating a lot of money also needs plenty of investment cash to keep it afloat.

Qatar Petroleum and Exxon Mobil Corp have dropped plans to build a gas-to-liquids plant in Qatar due to spiralling costs and will instead turn their attention to developing part of the country’s huge North Field gas reserves.

Spiraling costs have made a planned gas-to-liquids plant unfeasible.

One of India’s largest engineering and construction firms has bagged an EPC order from Qatar Petroleum worth US $181 million (QR658 million)

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